eventually found safe and affordable housing. it was this intrinsic step that stabilized my family and allow for our dreams and aspirations to take root. nearly three decades later, i now have the opportunity to be here to show my gratitude towards an organization, like tndc, and to those who contributed building cr. while the thank you list is quite long, it is easy for me to identify the list of people who deserve the biggest thing to today. the residence and the on site staff who lived through all of our efforts, and patty boyle. residents and on-site staff experienced among the following inconveniences', and i'm only naming a few. early morning jack cameron, fire alarm testing, roof fumes,

planned blackouts, and of course, sharing an old, rickety elevator with subcontractors. who knew that it would take 50 minutes to ride an elevator just eight floors, but we all did. in all seriousness, i want to thank the ccr residence and the on-site staff for allowing us to piece by piece transform this building into what it is today. later on today you see pictures of the tndc residence, and representational snapshot of those who were here during the rehab. an artist has installed a permanent piece of work to moralize is building in history. now i want to thank the people who were a part of this journey. thank you to attend -- tim. dorian.

scott alan. mandy grossy. emily lynn, my supervisor. and the director of housing developments at cnbc. i have now added 5 new tool to my project manager tool kit. number one, always be patient. number two, never panic. the problem is really not that bad. number three, always trust your team to find the answers. number four, try to find humor and irony in every situation. no. 5 -- which is pertinent to today -- take time to celebrate the miles talents and recognize the achievements of others. i would also like to take a moment to highlight our founder's spirit without their financial contribution and support, ccr would not have had the opportunity to be

revitalized. they did to the city and county -- county office of separate discovery development agency, enterprise, our tax credit investor, a wells fargo bank, our construction lender, the federal home loan bank of san francisco through its affordable housing program, far east national bank, a program that sponsor, the california financing agency, the state of california department of housing community development, and finally, -- one more -- j.d. morgan chase foundation. looking out into the audience, i see a lot of familiar faces, including my fiancee. [laughter] that was totally impromptu. i recognize the difficulty of interrupting a work day and taking a pause for a moment of recognition and celebration. i am so happy that this is done.

this is beautiful. so thank you all for being here today. and thank you to julie and jeanine, who put together today's facilities. we have organized two self- guided tours. unit 204 and around the corner, on their way to get in line for food, we have a lovely court erred in the back and you can visit unit lo5. it is great to be here. thank you. [applause] >> and to conclude, can we give a big round of applause -- easy part of this project is now done. the hard part comes in operating it for the next three decades. so could be put it together for

property management and social services staff? [applause] thank you, everyone, for coming. we are done.

when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you?

if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor.

they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these

women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic.

85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it

is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a

lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of l